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The XR1200 is the only Harley that looks kind of cool in my opinion. I still wouldn't buy one though. 4 hour rides on a Daytona might turn into torture...depends on the rider I guess. A 1000 standard would probably be a pretty good fit. What about the 1050 cc Speed Triple?

My thoughts are forward angle riding position requires rear swept pegs, that set up gells best.

The bikes with up right bars and rear swept pegs, like street tripples, just wad you up in both directions IMO, upright bars and rear swept pegs dont mesh together very well comfort wise to me. Upright bars need more upright or straight line pegs.

As far as the Daytona, it is a very agressive forward lean, with no chance to even sit up and stretch for a second, your looking straight to Hell at all times.

I dunno, I always liked the Harley XR 1200. This is the bike people will stop to gawk at among a bunch of sporting bikes. I'm sure an extra 20 horses could be liberated by opening up the intake and exhaust and with some easy mods from the huge Harley performance after-market. Not a hard-core peg-scraper but it would sure feel nice on a back-road on a sunny summer day.

I dunno, I always liked the Harley XR 1200. This is the bike people will stop to gawk at among a bunch of sporting bikes. I'm sure an extra 20 horses could be liberated by opening up the intake and exhaust and with some easy mods from the huge Harley performance after-market. Not a hard-core peg-scraper but it would sure feel nice on a back-road on a sunny summer day.

The suspension is abysmally bad. I think they replaced fork oil with the puke of people that looked at it.

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Wait, hold up....Rhetorik is a SHE!?!? I been here for over 5 years, and didn't know that.